Jatte, this is more of a question for you. What library did you use in FreeBasic for Gods and Idols?

Or did you make your own library.
Basically I want a nice smooth way to get two computers to communicate to each other.

I tried Mysoft's Windows Socket Helper library but I want to explore other libraries.

I don't use any library for networking, I use sockets directly.

Wow... I'd like to learn how to do that. I am at that stage of programming ever since you got me into using FreeBasic 4 years ago.

Do you have any kind of learning materials?

Mysoft gave me the basic knowledge on how sockets work, but I did not fully get it.

Winsock (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms738545%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) is fairly straight forward but Windows only, or you can use Berkley sockets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets) which are ''cross platform'' (Not supported on all platforms..)

Either way, they both function pretty much the same way.
Once you get the hang of it it's a piece of cake.
The basic low end stuff is the easy bit, it's the code logic on top of it that's hard: How do you handle lag? How do you even detect lag? What is lag? etc.
And you run headfirst into: ''Clientside prediction'' and ''Polymorphic deterministic behaviour'' and other buzzwords that mean nothing in the end ;)

tl;dr:
Use Winsock if you're on Windows, it's easy enough to get started with and any other socket system will work pretty much the same way.

Thanks. I've been talking to Mysoft about this stuff. He has been teaching me hands on with his WindowsSocket helper library